Ogun Approves Training for Permanent Secretaries
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has approved an intensive training program for Permanent Secretaries and top management officers in the state’s public service, aimed at enhancing skills, capacity, and strengthen state’s public service.
The State Head of Service, Mr Kehinde Onasanya, who stated this in a statement, said the one-week intensive training programme was expected to train Permanent Secretaries, Principals-General, General Managers and other top echelon of the Service while other grade levels and cadres would also benefit from the carefully structured programmes.
Mr Onasanya said the training would take place at the Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona School of Governance Studies,at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, and now being operated by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies ,NIPSS, Kuru, Jos.
The Head of Service also explained that the approval for the training was a fulfilment of the promise Governor Abiodun made during the inauguration of NIPSS-OSKASOGS that the Permanent Secretaries in Ogun would be the first set of students to be enrolled for courses at the School Institute, urging the NIPSS to come up with a suitable curriculum for these top management officers and other levels and cadres.
Also, Director of the institute ,Professor Sola Adeyanju described Prince Dapo Abiodun as a true nationalist and a visionary leader, noting that the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies had already made a significant impact in Ogun State .
The intensive training programme for the Permanent Secretaries is expected to commence in the second week of April, while civil servants on GL 13 – 17 will also be trained based on a well-structured curriculum put in place by NIPSS-OSKASOGS.
